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same distance apart, but if care is taken in the beginning 

 in selecting the buds there will be no material difference. 

 No more fruiting canes should be allowed to grow on one 



Fig. 44. 



arm than upon the other, nor should any number of the 

 canes be allowed to grow higher than the others, and thereby 

 appropriate more than their due share of nutriment. Keep 

 the vine equally balanced in fruit, foliage, and wood. The 

 vine referred to above has six upright canes, which, if 

 evenly distributed, would give eight inches space between 

 each, which is abundant for those varieties that have leaves 

 of moderate size. But with those that have very coarse 

 wood and large leaves, the distance between the upright 

 canes should be ten or twelve inches. 



The upright canes are pruned back the first year to two 

 buds ; the small cross lines near the base of the canes, Fig. 

 44, show where they should be cut. The next year a cane 

 will proceed from each of these buds, and all other shoots 

 which may start from the small buds near the arm should 

 be rubbed off. Or, if the buds should produce two shoots 

 each, as they will sometimes do, only the strongest one 

 should be allowed to grow. 



The second yea : the two canes will each produce three 

 or four buncLfea of fruit, and instead of twelve upright canes 



